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The Geology of Edinburgh Course begins Wednesday, 8th October📚

Purchase your tickets now! You can attend the whole course, or drop in for individual sessions🪨✏️📖

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

The hype is real. This two hour long doc about extreme birdwatching is an absolute delight, and nothing less than a soothing balm in horrible times.

The makers have put the whole thing up on YouTube, for free with no ads, and all of you should watch it right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Lovely news and beautiful names. Congratulations to you all.

The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC “two-side” the genocide in Gaza.

"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide".

The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary.

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This is essential viewing.

A remarkable interview with Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatrician working in Gaza, following the killing of her colleague’s NINE children by Israeli forces.

Going to post this video in two clips.

Here she responds to ludicrous IDF denials & calls out the genocide.

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The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

If you read one thing today, please read this. Heart-breaking but beautifully written, deeply moving and - ultimately - full of hope.

‘The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Secretary of State Hilary Benn is dragging 87-year-old widow Bridie Brown to the Supreme Court in London, refusing to accept the court order to launch a public enquiry into the murder of her husband Sean Brown.

I cannot express how grosteque this is. Utterly utterly shameful.

WFP’s food stocks in Gaza have been depleted.

◾No food has entered Gaza in over 7 weeks — the longest border closure the Strip has ever faced.
◾WFP has more than 116,000 tons of food positioned at aid corridors, ready to enter as soon as borders reopen.

Please share!

🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland

Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions

Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself

Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start.

Open to UK students only.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Sean Brown: Refusal not to hold public inquiry unlawful, court rules - BBC News Sean Brown's family call on Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn "to do the right thing".

UK Govt lose the Brown case appeal. Hopefully their line on a few out of line judges now dies a death. More to follow once I have the judgment:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let’s not pretend the Twelfth is about ‘respect and understanding’ Bonfires are sectarian beacons that send out a clear message to nationalists – croppies lie down – while also terrorising people living in loyalist communities

ereader.irishnews.com/2025/04/01/l... My column in today’s www.irishnews.com online and in the shops

Important > via @irishhospice.bsky.social

My Son Is In Prison. This Common 4-Word Reaction From People Is Gut-Wrenchingly Insensitive. "The curiosity is understandable — completely so. But leading with those four little words shows little understanding of the injustices built into the system."

"The curiosity is understandable — completely so. But leading with those four little words shows little understanding of the injustices built into the system."

Chris's article is well worth a read, and can be found here. 👇

Ends

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

Séamas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert I’m less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether it’s true or not

This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

My May botanical illustration & mental health w'shop’s now live. I teach you:
🌿how to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading
🧠how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health

There’s 15% off atm with the code THANKYOU15:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

⏳ Only 5 days left to apply for the EU Legal Summer School 2025!

📍Luxembourg | 📅 June 2025
✔️ Job-shadowing, training & workshops
✔️ Legal career insights & networking
✔️ Accommodation & meals included (just cover travel!)

Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw...
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gareth Southgate, "Young men are suffering"

"They're feeling isolated"

"They're grappling with their masculinity and with their broader place in society"

"The culture we create today will shape the kind of men that we inherit tomorrow"

The thread about St. Patrick and the 18th century Southside houses of Cabbage and Turnip Why was a street in 18th century Presbyterian Edinburgh named for the Irish patron saint closely associated with Catholicism? And what does it have to do with cabbages and turnips? Let’s find…

threadinburgh.scot/2023/03/17/t... In honour of St. Patrick's day, here is a thread about why St. Patrick Square has nothing to do with that potential namesake, and Southside houses named after the humble cabbage and turnip. 🥬🏚️

ADHD Barrister Marking Neurodiversity Week 2025, an anonymous barrister shares the revelations and emotions from a mid-career diagnosis with a view to encouraging others to find out more

This is an exceptional piece of writing by an anonymous barrister recently diagnosed with ADHD.

www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/adh...

Me too. No need at all.

Andrew Tate is back in the US – and a model of Trump’s worldview | Moira Donegan As the anti-woman influencer sees it, domination is its own end. Is it any surprise he’s a supporter of the president?

Andrew Tate is back in the US – and a model of Trump’s worldview | Moira Donegan

What would a trauma-informed analysis of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting look like? I think it would pay attention to body language. It would consider what was happening biologically. Here's my THREAD tracking changes over the 50 mins.
Here's the link I'm working with:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOv...

Recommend reading about this wonderful man - just to give a bit of light to the awful shade everywhere

‘Disappointed but not shocked’: PSNI don’t deny spying on journalist who is investigating Noah Donohoe’s death Two years ago, an investigative journalist began examining how the PSNI handled the death of a 14-year-old schoolboy. Then, it is alleged, the PSNI began spying on that journalist.

⬇️ Some serious questions raised in this piece - wider issues around surveillance of journalists but also on the motivation behind placing Mr McIntyre under surveillance as he began the Noah Donohoe investigation.

📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk
✍️ @sjamcbride.bsky.social

DR Congo war: Women tell BBC of rape ordeal at Goma's Munzenze prison Women recall being raped in prison in DR Congo, as chaos broke out after rebels advanced on Goma city.

Amidst all the angst over what’s happening in US and Europe, Gaza, Ukraine etc, a searing report by Orla Guerin on the horrific tragedy unfolding in DRC. So many other conflicts get barely any attention at all. What is wrong with mankind? The inhumanity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

How to Survive the Broligarchy Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
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